Human Centered Design and Design Thinking for Entrepreneurship

Design Thinking = Human-Centered Design?

Im Team stark: Design Thinking und User-Centered Design

Das DT kommt der Mensch-Computer-Interaktion (MCI) in der Ausbildung zugute, weil die im DT verwendeten Arbeitsweisen für gute Interaktionsdesigner grundlegend sind, meist aber nur an Design Fachbereichen gelehrt werden. Dabei wird insbesondere von dem selbst erarbeiteten praktischen Verständnis von Kontext, Benutzer und Problemstellung profitiert und der daraus resultierenden konsequenten Nutz...

Human-Centered Design for Development

This paper describes the challenges faced in ICTD by reviewing the lessons learned from a project geared at improving the livelihood of marginal farmers in India through wireless sensor networks. Insufficient user participation, lack of attention to user needs, and a primary focus on technology in the design process led to unconvinced target users who were not interested in the new technology. ...

Towards Human-Centered Design

The consequence of taking customer orientation serious is to integrate them right at the heart of value creation – in new product design and development. The transitions in innovation management during the last years allow us exactly to that in a more resolute way. By democratizing knowledge and information the social media revolution strongly supported the dissemination of concepts such as ope...

Grand Challenges in Design Research for Human-Centered Design Informatics

The idea of design informatics as a distinguished discipline is a new one, with little precedence. This paper argues for the importance of a humancentered perspective with respect to the emergence of this newly nascent field of design informatics—a perspective which may be termed Human-Centered Design Informatics (HCDI). The paper proposes four grand challenges that are essential to the foundat...